Spelling Tuesday

Today should be a sad day for me. It is my last day of teaching kindergarten here at Benton Elementary School, in Independence. I have been here six years, and had many interesting experiences. People are always asking me, "won't you miss teaching?" The answer is, yes and no. I will definately miss all my friends and collegues at Benton. They are the kind of teachers that I strived to be. They put up with so much CRAP and still love those kids and families. They are doing their lives callings- and I really admire that. We have had some fun times together- laughed together and cried together. I will miss them tremendously. I will also miss MOST of the kids. They do say the dardest things sometimes... I love the part of teaching when a kid FINALLY gets it- something you have been working on over and over. I love seeing their special talents and trying to figure out what kind of person they will become. But then there are the reasons for leaving... So much that teacher do is...

I cried three times yesterday! Well, one of the time was because Caleb hit me in the eye, but that is a whole other story. He said my hair looked really "wavy" which I knew was code word for "wild and frizzy", so that set me off. Here is a tip, don't get your hair cut right before you find out that you are pregnant! I am now at the wierd growing out phase and it won't do anything and it looks silly. Add to that the "protective fat layer", and the hormone zits, and you have a serious self esteem complex! Then we watched "27 dresses" and it made me think of our wedding day, six years ago, and how hot we were for each other and how cute I was, and I started wondering "what if I never look like that again???"

am so fat that my wedding ring doesn't fit. I was getting dirty looks at the grocery store so I bought myself a six dollar cubic ziconia monstrosotie which I will wear to maintain my good reputation. Ha!

Yes. It is either a boy or girl. We weren't able to determine the sex, cause baby had it's little ankles crossed right over it's junk. Everthing looked good on the sonogram though. Healthy, and the right size. But I cried when I left the office. I had visions of myself going out and buying little frilly pink dresses or biboveralls with trucks on the front right after I found out the sex. I just kept picturing my baby having only ugly green and orange clothes! Pregnancy hormones... you gotta love them. Caleb felt so bad for me that he played hooky almost an entire day at work. I love that guy. Then I had to go to a summer school meeting- eww. Just a reminder of the fun to come. But when I got home, I had balloons and a card and chocolate. Then he took me out to dinner and my parents and brother met us at the restaurant. So that was fun. The day ended much better than it started.

The last couple of weeks I have been having some heartburn. I hear that means my baby is hairy. Duh, have you seen me? I have a lot of hair. Let's keep our fingers crossed for curls!

My Dad played a "Tribute to Merell Haggard" Concert last night in Liberty. He did a great job, and it was fun to see him on stage again. The crowd went wild (okay, not really, as most of them were over 70, and on oxygen). I remember my dad playing all those songs when I was growing up, so it was a real trip down memory lane! Most kids wouldn't say that their parents sang them the song "Mama Tried" as a lulluby- "I turned 21 in prison, doing life without parol. No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried!

Caleb and I worked in the yard quite a bit this weekend. I say Caleb and I, but really I mean Caleb. I mostly just watched and directed as necessary. We did all the landscaping around our back patio for a joint birthday present to ourselves (my birthday is next week, his is in August). We also got some furniture for out there, so now we need to have a "patio warming" party! Ha. We are having another ultrasound on Tuesday, and hopefully we will be able to tell if we are having a Loralie Bria Lenz, or a Brighley Christian Lenz! The suspense is killing me. The nursery is looking really cute, thanks to awesome presents from my baby shower last week. Caleb and I have been reading to our little peanut baby everynight (laugh if you want, but our kid is going to be a genius!)